West Berkshire
Parent Carer Forum
Empower and enable your voices to be heard
West Berkshire Parent Carer Forum
Welcome to West Berks Parent Carer Forum!
In this time of uncertainty and worry, please keep yourselves safe and well. We are still working, and if you have any thoughts on issues affecting you and your family regarding SEN, please do let us know.
We are a friendly group of parent carers who have children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities aged from 0-25 years.
We want to improve our local services, and by coming together as a collective, we can and do make changes. We love the video below and think the video below explains it perfectly. We are always happy for more people to join us, there’s no charge to join, we are completely free, and we are a relaxed fun group. So if you would like to be part of friendly bunch of people who would like to see SEND changes in West Berkshire, we would love to have you 
As a Forum we can support and train parent carers to enable them to have their voices and opinions count, and to be involved with shaping services alongside the professionals who provide health, education, adult and social services.
Our shared mission is to improve and enhance the experiences and opportunities of children and young people with additional needs, by enabling parents and carers to be heard, and to be at the heart of decisions about development and delivery of services in West Berkshire.
The forum represent the views of the collective community and not an individual voice, we are unable to advocate for individual families, but can signpost to specialist services.
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Wednesday 26 August 2020
11:00am - 12:00pm
It will soon be the new academic year, this session will help parents and carers prepare their child for a return to school.
The disruptions to education, extended time away from school, and the measures in place to protect people from the spread of COVID have left many children feeling unprepared and anxious about returning to the classroom.
Expert practitioner and occupational therapist Shelley Williams will go through the steps you can take to help children transition back to school, including:
· How to get back into school uniform
· What to expect in the new classroom environment
· Re-establishing school routines
· How to develop a sensory story with you child
· Q&A session for parents / carers.
Virtual Event: Sensory support - Preparing for a return to school
events.irwinmitchell.com
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Whole school SEND Resources for returning to school.
www.sendgateway.org.uk/whole-school-send/find-wss-resources/
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Whole School SEND resources New - COVID-19 SEND Review Guide The COVID-19 episode has amplified the need for schools and other education settings to reflect on and refine provision in response to changing need and circumstance. To support teachers, SENCOs, other leaders and Governors to ...